| This article provides detailed information on Classical | | | | is more inclined to figure work and plucking. Therefore, |
| Guitar Tablatures. | | | | these classical guitar tablatures are more meticulously |
| A classical guitar is slightly different in shape from an | | | | structured and they are much more complex and |
| ordinary guitar (i.e. rhythm guitar, bass guitar, Hawaiian | | | | intertwined with more uses of notes (i.e. C, Bb, G, A, F, |
| guitar, etc.) The fret board, also known as the neck of | | | | F#, etc) than others.If we track back the history of |
| the guitar, is slightly broader than that of other guitars. | | | | tablatures, they have been used in the Western world |
| As a result the strings are more distanced from each | | | | for the last six centuries. They were mostly a |
| other. The guitarist must stretch his fingers a bit more | | | | horizontal grid read from left to right with letters and |
| than when he is playing an acoustic or an electric | | | | numbers written over them signifying the construction |
| guitar. When it comes to the string, the difference is | | | | of pitches, and rhythmic signs above. Then by the 17th |
| that a classical guitar uses nylon strings instead of | | | | century various systems of tablatures existed in |
| metal ones, making for a mellower sound.Classical | | | | Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Nowadays |
| guitars are based on the classical mode of music and | | | | tablatures, guitar tabs in particular, have vertical lines |
| follow classically oriented instructions. But the modern | | | | which represent the strings of the guitar (no matter |
| day guitar tablatures follow a slightly different course | | | | what kind of guitar it is), horizontal lines for the frets, |
| from that of classical notations. Playing classical guitar | | | | and dots signifying the position of the figures. |